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Leaving football, when your career comes to an end, is like leaving school.
You are taken out of the bosom of a family — your club, your team-mates,
your fellow pros — and exposed, at last, to the big wide world.

Most find it a scary, intimidating, lonely place. For someone such as Paul
Gascoigne, that effect would be magnified a thousand times.

Last night came the news that the former England hero was “willingly” admitted
to an alcoholic treatment centre in the United States. This followed his
appearance during a charity event in Northampton last week, when he appeared
unwell and